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No person shall engage in or commit any indecent or lewd act in any
public place.
(Ord. 60546 § 2, 1987.)

15.30.020 Definitions.

A. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
be defined as follows:

1. "Indecent or lewd act" shall include:

a. The exposure of one's genitals, buttocks, vulva, pubic hair, pubic
area or the female breast below a point immediately above the top of the
areola, for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification or which is
likely to cause affront or alarm; provided, however, that any exposure
of the female breast necessarily incident to breast-feeding an infant
shall not be deemed to be a violation of this chapter; or

b. The touching, caressing or fondling of the breasts, buttocks or
genitals, whether, clothed or unclothed for the purpose of sexual
arousal or gratification or which is likely to cause affront or alarm;
or

c. Acts or representations of acts of human masturbation, sexual
intercourse or sodomy, bestiality, cunnilingus, fellatio, flagellation
or torture by or upon a person as a act of sexual stimulation or
gratification; or

d. Acts or representation of acts of urination or defecation, other
than of the public view in the proper receptacles of public or private
comfort stations, restroom, toilets or other similar facilities provided
for these acts.

2. "Public place" is any publicly owned place or premises or
any privately owned place or premises to which the public or a substantial
number of persons have access or where the conduct or act involved may be
viewed by people other than the members of the actor's family or
household.

B. Exclusion. This chapter shall not prohibit performances that are not
pornographic under the provisions of Chapter 15.32 of the Revised Code of
the City of St. Louis.
(Ord. 60546 § 3, 1987.)

A city ordinance prohibiting certain types of conduct is
unconstitutionally vague insofar as it attempts to proscribe conduct by
use of the words "indecent or lewd act of behavior." D.C. v.
City of St. Louis, 795 F. 2d 652 (8th Cir. 1986).

McQuillin:

24.112 Lewd conduct, adultery, miscegenation

15.30.030 Penalty for violation.

Any person found in violation of this chapter shall be fined no less than
one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00)
or by imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
(Ord. 60546 § 5, 1987.)